[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.

Great men always have dogs.

Youth without faith is a day without sun.

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

Excess always carries it's own retributions.

Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?